Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:37:55 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <20000810043754.E468@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000809221502.047996d8@mail.sentex.net> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <20000809221521.D468@hand.dotat.at> <4.2.2.20000809221502.047996d8@mail.sentex.net>
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Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: >At 10:15 PM 8/9/2000 +0000, Tony Finch wrote: >>Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: >> > >> >I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card. I have been booting >> >from the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists >> >on booting from the 3ware. Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is >> >there any way to force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ? >> >>When we had this problem we just overwrote the boot blocks on the 3ware. >>Invalid boot blocks -> no boot. > >What if you rebuild the array, or the array dies ? Also, how do you set >the boot blocks to no boot ? Actually, I think my colleague overwrote the boot blocks by rebuilding the array :-) The machine came with Red Hat installed and we wanted FreeBSD on it so this wasn't a drastic action. You could also dd a few blocks of /dev/zero to achieve the same effect. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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